On 04/29/2016 06:20 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
On Fri, 29 Apr 2016 07:53 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
JFTR I find git behavior annoying -- as it seems do others
`git --help` behaves as the Unix standard: it prints help output to stdout.
Is that the annoying behaviour?
No.
`git help <command>` and `git <command> --help` call `man`. Is that the
annoying behaviour?
Yes.
Then presumably `man` is also annoying,
No.
and the advise I was given to just use man pages is bad advice.
The advice to call man from --help is bad; the advice to have a man page
for use with man is not.
With python's help I find it annoying and Ive not figured out how to not
get paging
o_O
Okay, now I'm feeling as if you had said "I find it annoying to be fit and
healthy, I've not found a way to feel sufficiently sick, tired and
out-of-shape all the time."
And exactly what is healthy and fit about calling "help(something)" and
then having that help disappear? I find that *extremely* annoying.
But I see your point. The pydoc documentation itself is lacking. But from
reading the source code, I see that if you set the PAGER environment
variable to your preferred pager, it will use that. So setting it to "cat"
should work. I've just tested this under Linux, and it works for me:
So I have to cripple my shell to get pydoc help to work nicely? Neat!
Actually, not so much. :(
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